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HOOD AND OTHER GARIVIENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,515, dated November 17, 1885.

Application filed June 19, 1855. Serial No. 169,190. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RANDEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glens Falls, in the county of Warren and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Art of Making Hoods and other Garments, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of' my invention is to cheapen the manufacture and improve the quality and appearance of hoods and'other garments, and at the same time dispense with the use of knitting or crocheting in their production.

The invention will trst be described in connection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure l is a side view of a hood constructed in accordancefwith my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse horizontal section of the same. Fig. 4.

represents a strip of material prepared in accordance with my invention to be transformed into hoods or other garments. Fig. 5 represents a row of trimming or ruching prepared in accordance with my invention to ornament various garments, and also a body made of two rows of trimming laced together. Fig. 6 represents the crown of ahood or a gore for a garment.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Hoods or other garments produced in accordance with my invention are made of a series of strands, A, of worsted or other suitable material, wrapped around or upon a former or frame of suitable shape and flattened to produce the desired effect, and said strands are sewed or stitched, (with an ordinary sewing-machina) as shown by the dotted lines at B, upon a lining or foundation, O, of textile fabric. The body A', above said foundation, is made either continuous upon a Wide former extending the length and width of the main portion of the garment, andrsecured to the lining by many rows, B, of stitching, as shown in Figs. l, 3, and 4, or said body A may be made on a series of narrow formers and each loop of said body laced to the loops of a similar body or of the gore, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, by a strand or lace, D, passing through said loops.

To ornament the plain body A', rows of trimming or ruching A2 are made in the same manner as the body A of strands wound around a narrow former and stitched tothe textile foundation O and to the body A lying thereon. There may be two or more rows of this ruching laid one above the other, as at A3, and stitched to the body A and to the foundation O. The crown or back gore, A4,is made upon a tapering or angular former and secured to the edge of the body A by having a strand, cord, or ribbon passed alternately through the side loops of said crown-piece and of the body. The hood or garment may also be ornamented by passing a ribbon, as shown strands. Bows of ribbon E'z may also be attached in appropriate locations upon the hood or garment,as well as strings E3, to fasten it to the wearer. By this construction the hood or garment is made without the aid of knitting or crocheting machines, and may be made at low cost and very durable, as all the strain upon the strands is borne by the textile lining, and also handsome and capable of having any desired amount of ornamentation.

Although the use of a lining of textile material renders the garment stronger and more impermeable, said garment can be made simply from the strands laid upon a former or l'ormers and laced or stitched together without any lining for a foundation.

Having now fully described my invention, I claiml. The method of making hoods or garments herein described, the same consisting in placing a series of loops of yarn upon a textile foundation alongside of parallel series of similar loops and interlocking the said. loops, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The method of making hoods or garments herein described, the same consisting in placing a series of loops of yarn upon a foundation alongside a series of similar loops and interlocking the said loops by inserting a binding cord or thread, and afterward superposing upon one or more of the said series an additional series of loops, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM RANDEL.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL B. MOUNT, R. H. VAN ALstrYNE.

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